The Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and bio-pharmaceutical major AstraZeneca is safe and works extremely well, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday, amid reports that the doses were causing blood clot-related complications.
In an editorial to coincide with the launch of a new “Integrated Review” of the UK’s foreign policy vision, he said, “That vaccine is safe and works extremely well, and now, only six months later, it is being made in multiple places from India to the US, as well as Britain, and it is being used around the world.”
In explaining the context of the “Integrated Review”, which lays out Johnson’s Global Britain agenda as a non-member of the European Union (EU), Johnson made reference to the vaccine.
Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway and Iceland has paused Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs.